elcomercio.pe reported agents of the Division of Criminal investigation (Divincri) of Breña captured this morning citizen Argentine Mario Alberto Rodríguez Morales , of 45 years, for allegedly sexual exploitation of children. The subject, known as “Uncle Che”, was involved in his house, located on the third block of Colmena Avenue.
In that place, which functioned as a lodging, ‘ uncle Che ” was found with five women, three of them aged 15, 16 and 17. In addition, police seized two agendas containing names and numbers of their clients and victims, some from province and abroad, that would indicate your relationship with any international mafia.
It was also learned that the Argentine it captured the girls through fliers delivered on the street and online. For them, he received 300 soles, but it only paid 40. Read Article
On or about August 6, 2014, elcomercio.pe reported eight assailants attacked an inter-provincial bus. Armed with rifles and robbed and physically assaulted 50 passengers. Victims reported the roadway was blocked with rocks in order to stop the bus. Assailants then boarded the bus, diverted it to an area off the highway and then flattened the […]
elcomercio.pe reported Children and indigenous adolescents develop illegal mining activities and have contact with toxic substances. A number still not determined in indigenous children working in the illegal extraction of gold in Amazon. Photos obtained by The trade confirms this serious problem in the basin of the Cenepa river, in the province of Condorcanqui. With […]
elcomercio.pe reported new signs representing the Shining Path with the acronym PCP (in allusion to the Communist Party of Peru, of the subversive organization Shining path), appeared in four points of the historic centre of the city of Ayacucho, among them, in the exterior walls of the premises of Garcilaso of the Vega of the […]
Around 400 informal miners with dynamite this morning attacked a police camp that provides security at the mine located in the District of Chala, province of Caravelí, Arequipathe Sander. Would have four officers wounded and two missing. In reference to the missing agents, the channel said that one of them – not yet identified – […]
elcomercio.pe reported more than 800 illegal gallons of oil were seized once members of a same family were operated in their attempt to enter the city of Sullana transporting fuel from Ecuador. The family, dedicated to the smuggling, was part of the band “Los Menas” and was intercepted when it crossed the bridge Isaiah Garrido, […]
nextvlatam.com reported the Peruvian Pay TV market is the one with the highest concentration among Latin America’s Top seven markets, according to Dataxis. Telefónica (Movistar) has 58.6% of the total subscribers in the country, which represent nearly 885,000 customers. The other operators that stand apart in the Peruvian market are DirecTV and Claro (América Móvil), […]
Theguardian.com/Damian Carrington reported…Amazon tribe makes first contact with outside world Indigenous people crossed from Peru into Brazil looking for help to combat illegal loggers and drug traffickers, researchers say. Footage released by Brazil’s National Indian Foundation shows isolated indigenous people coming forward for outside assistance after fleeing attacks in Peru Indigenous tribesmen living deep in […]
Theguardian.com reported Gastón Acurio, the super chef who put Peruvian cuisine on the world map From culinary festivals to cookbooks, the Lima restaurateur has rebranded his nation’s food into a highly successful export. In the kitchens and cafes of the food-crazed Peruvian capital, history is divided into two epochs: Before Gastón and After Gastón. The […]
lahora.com.ec reported the Governments of Ecuador and Peru will hire a study to determine the potential development of an oil-border area in the Amazon, the Ecuadorian Ministry of non-renewable natural resources said yesterday. The announcement was made as part of ‘Binational workshop’ which brings together since yesterday Thursday to energy authorities of the two countries […]
upsidedownworld.org reported the Peruvian Congress approved a packet of laws on July 3 which critics say subjects the country to neoliberal reforms that threaten to undermine environmental and labor protections and is a gift to the extractive industry. The Minister of Economy and Finance Luis Miguel Castilla first presented to Congress on this packet of […]
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the tomb of an elite Mochica ruler at the Huaca de la Luna archaeological complex, an ancient temple located in what is now the city of Trujillo on the north coast of Peru, which was dedicated entirely to making human sacrifices as offerings to the deity of the mountains. According […]
andina.com.pe reported the amount of public investment executed in Peru surged to record level 12.05 billion soles (US$ 4.32 billion) at July 10, 2014, according to the country’s Economy and Finance Ministry (MEF). Facade of the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finace. Photo: ANDINA/ Cesar García Facade of the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finace. […]
talaraenlinea.com reported Serene district of Mancora, twice thwarted theft of personal belongings, several tourists from American nationality, speaking to one of the subjects that was taken to the police station in the district for the proceedings of the case. The guards realized that in the sector of beaches, Playa El Amor height, three subjects intended […]
Serene district of Mancora, twice thwarted theft of personal belongings, several tourists from American nationality, speaking to one of the subjects that was taken to the police station in the district for the proceedings of the case. The guards realized that in the sector of beaches, Playa El Amor height, three subjects intended to steal […]
laprensa.pe reported Police are searching intensely for the Bolivian Diego Rivera Valdivar following confirmation that it is one of the hitmen who murdered last Sunday to a man at a local McDonald’s in Miraflores. The homicides Division agents also are the footsteps of Roy Roger Oroche García, the owner of the vehicle, plate B8V-349, that […]
larepublica.per reported trade restrictions imposed by the Government of Ecuador have hurt more than one hundred national exporting companies, according to the Manager of the Association of exporters (Adex), Jorge Rochabrunt, said yesterday during the presentation of the “Expoalimentaria” which will be held in Lima from 27 to 29 August. The Manager stressed Ecuador there […]
The Guardian.com reported…Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protesters Law exempts soldiers and police from criminal responsibility if they cause injuries or deaths That law, no. 30151, was promulgated in January this year and is, according to the IDL’s Juan José Quispe, a modification of existing legislation passed by the previous government. The […]
bbc.com reported figures released by the United Nations suggest the area planted with coca – the raw ingredient for cocaine – has diminished in Peru and Bolivia. Peru is the world’s top grower of the crop, and Bolivia is the third largest. In Colombia, the second largest grower, the amount of land sustaining coca bushes […]
ecuadortimes.net reported in accordance to the commitments of the Peace Agreement between Ecuador and Peru since 1998, three roads were concluded and the fourth is being executed. This was announced yesterday by Vicente Rojas, Executive Director of the Binational Plan. Rojas explained that the highway that connects Saramiriza (Peru) with Loja (Ecuador) advances by direct […]
Specialists at the Machu Picchu archaeological park have announced the discovery of a new section of Inca road. Archaeologists have discovered a new section of Inca Road— and this one leads right to Machu Picchu. According to Andina news agency, the newly discovered road is about one and a half kilometers long, and varies between […]
rpp.com reported that an Israeli tourist backpacking was found dead in the Nevado Pisco, located in Cordillera Blanca, in the Ancash region, was identified as Pavel Lerman (33). His death was registered this afternoon. He was hiking at an altitude of more than 4 600 meters along with 15 other tourists from Israel. The representative […]
Amnesty.org reported…The Peruvian authorities must ensure that all those suspected of criminal responsibility in the tragic events in Bagua are brought to justice, said Amnesty International today on the fifth anniversary of the violence which left 33 people dead. Demonstrators and police were killed when police clashed with Indigenous People protesting against a series of […]
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theguardian.com reported Peru’s president says he is indefinitely postponing plans to forcibly eradicate coca fields in the world’s top cocaine-producing valley. President Ollanta Humala’s announcement in a televised interview Sunday night came a week after he fired his drug czar, Carmen Masias. She had announced in January that a militarised eradication effort – half-funded by […]
dailymail.co.uk reported. Life is cheap in the mining camps. Deaths go unrecorded and the mercury they use to bind gold flecks compounds the risks. It doesn’t just seep into the food chain. It poisons them and their families, too. And now a new threat now looms for the estimated 20,000 wildcat miners who toil in […]
bbc.com reported…the authorities in Peru say they are evacuating people living near the Ubinas volcano, in the south of the country, because of increased activity. Officials said it would take three days to move 4,000 residents and their livestock to safer grounds. Ubinas, Peru’s most active volcano, recently began spewing ash clouds up to 4km […]
IPSnews.net reported that deforestation, especially in the Andean highlands of Bolivia and Peru, was the main driver of this year’s disastrous flooding in the Madeira river watershed in Bolivia’s Amazon rainforest and the drainage basin across the border, in Brazil. That is the assessment of Marc Dourojeanni, professor emeritus at the National Agrarian University in […]
bbc.com reported that twenty-four people suspected of links to Peruvian militant group Shining Path have been arrested, the president says. President Ollanta Humala said they included the leaders of the organisation’s political arm, Movadef. Two of them are lawyers for the group’s founder Abimael Guzman, who was jailed in 1992. The Maoist group was effectively […]
dailymail.co.uk reported that Drug mule Melissa Reid is set to be sent back to Scotland to serve her sentence for cocaine smuggling. In a shock development, the Peruvian government has just written to the Scottish authorities seeking clearance to let the 20-year-old complete her seven year jail term in her home country. And Scotland’s justice […]
Pandasecurity.com reported that the Cloud Security Company has published the results of its 2013 Annual Report, compiled by PandaLabs. In 2013 alone, cyber-criminals created and distributed 20 percent of all malware that has ever existed. There were a total of 30 million new malicious strains in circulation which averages out to 82,000 attacks per day. […]
Theguardian.com reported that Peruvian women intent on bringing state to book over forced sterilisations Women sterilised in the late 1990s under a Peruvian government scheme show no signs of relenting in their long fight for justice. Their legal case began in 2003, when the state paid compensation to the family of Mamérita Mestanza, who died […]
Theguardian.com reported…Our literary tour of Peru embraces Manuel Odría’s dictactorship, murder in Ayacucho, and the legacy of Pizarro’s conquistadors. Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo Roncagliolo’s chilling political thriller is set in the provincial town of Ayacucho in 2000, in the month leading up to Holy Week. An eccentric, mother-obsessed prosecutor, newly returned to his hometown […]
HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF LIVING OR RETIRING TO ECUADOR – READ THIS BOOK elcomercio.pe reported that the decentralized direction of culture of Cusco reported that photographs and video of two people naked running around the Citadel of Machu Picchu were recorded from irregularly in November of 2013 and that the authorities arrested them immediately. The […]
rpp.com.pe reported that a stir causes on social networks a photograph, taken in November 2013, where two naked foreign tourists on the inca Citadel of Machu Picchu, appear in Cusco. The comments and memes are the order of the day. Some point out that it is a lack of respect to the Cusco and others […]
larepublica.pe reported that Police sources revealed that the intelligence team led by Captain Ana Sánchez Ponce, suffered no casualties. Its 14 members prevented the intruders will suffer from at least 50 thousand suns. “The girls took the risk. They were able to act decisively in the crucial moments… “, said an officer of the Sub […]
larepublica.pe reported that in Peru, the problem of infertility is becoming increasingly more troubling: two of every ten couples would be felt from this disease. According to Dr. Julio Diaz Pinillos, specialist in infertility of birth – Lima-human reproduction centre, about 20% of people are affected by infertility problems. “We speak of that two of […]
hispantv.ir reported that the price of oil for automotive use liquefied gas increased its prices in a meaningful way in Peru. Peruvian taxi drivers, the main affected, have left feeling his discomfort. The LPG for automotive use suffered a further increase. Increased 31 cents from Sun, i.e. about 12 cents. Establishments of retail of petroleum […]
elcomercio.pe reported that in February will start the scheduled closure of the Inca trail network leading to the Citadel of Machu Picchu, Cusco, for the execution of maintenance and conservation work, said today the Ministry of foreign trade and tourism (Mincetur). As usual, will close the access of visitors only by the entrance to the […]
A tourist of Japanese nationality died midday on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. The Japanese visitor, identified as Ho Huwgkic (74) had arrived in the alternate international airport of Pisco, on a commercial flight from Santiago de Chile. As you might know, abroad arrived in the Peru with his wife and their three children […]
redorbit.com reported that three beautiful new lizards from the Andes of Peru have been delimited and discovered using different lines of evidences by Peruvian and American biologists from San Marcos and Brigham Young universities respectively. The study was published in the open access journal Zookeys. These lizards have been “hidden” and confused with other lizards […]
theguardian.com reported Michaela McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid have been sentenced to six years and eight months in jail on drug trafficking charges. The pair’s lawyer says the two women, who pleaded guilty to the charges, are not appealing the ruling. The 20-year-olds were stopped at Lima airport in August with £1.5m of cocaine in […]
cnbc.com reported that Eric Bartoli, the accused mastermind of a $65 million scam featured on “American Greed: The Fugitives,” has been apprehended by authorities in Lima, Peru, after 10 years on the run. The former securities broker is on the FBI’s most wanted list for his alleged involvement in a Ponzi scheme. Read Article
reuters.com reported that Peru’s Congress passed a law on Thursday allowing the privatization of up to 49 percent of state-run energy firm Petroperu, part of a government plan to expand national refining capacity. The new law, fast-tracked by President Ollanta Humala as a key step toward his goal of boosting domestic energy production, opens the […]
china.org.cn reported that The Toromocho project, China’s largest overseas copper project, started production in Peru on Dec. 11. The project, one of the top 20 in the world, has a copper reserve of 1.2 million tons, 19 percent of China’s domestic total copper resources. It will produce 220,000 metric tons of refined copper annually, 18 […]
Trome.pe reported that there are about 200 000 informal or pirate taxis in Lima and Callao. “December is the hardest month security. The criminal activities are increasing and more and more fierce: use knife and decided to go around. Lurking near galleries and shopping malls, waiting for his victim up alone, especially if you are […]
Young girls are lured by the possibility of working and or kidnapped in Lima, Cusco, or Puno. Held captive and forced to work as prostitutes. There documents are often taken from them. elcomercio.pe reported that what happened to the two girls is a practice used to attract teenagers to work in bars and nightclubs in […]
Insidecostarica.com reported that the sixth recorded case of malaria in Costa Rica this year, but authorities believe the patient acquired the disease while on a trip to Peru. An investigation into the case has determined that the patient contracted the disease in Peru, according to Director of Health Surveillance, Mary Ethel Trejos. According to Trejos, […]
Nutriad appoints Biobac to supply shrimp additives in Ecuador, Peru. Nutriad International has recently appointed Biobac S.A. as its strategic partner to supply Nutriad’s specialty additives to shrimp farms and aqua feed mills in Ecuador and Peru. Biobac is a pioneer in the development of biotechnological products for aquaculture in Ecuador. Read Article
At least 500 minor victims alleged in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Spain and Ukraine Arturo Dodero, 29, was arrested in Peru after a joint operation of that country and Spain. A Peruvian aged 29 was arrested in Lima by agents of the National Police of Peru (PNP) and the National Police of Spain, accused of integrating […]
A 46-year-old American citizen and tourist was discovered dead in his Cusco hotel room on Monday morning. Andina news agency reports that William Thomas Hunt, 46, retired to his room at the Eco Inn hotel in Cusco after going on a city tour. Sources told Andina that Hunt had complained of feeling poorly after the […]
peruthisweek.com reported that the Cusco-area private sector is considering the possibility of rehabilitating now-unused paths into Machu Picchu in order to allow tourists to take a more flexible— as well as more personalized— approach to the site. According to Andina news agency, Roger Valencia of the Cusco Chamber of Tourism announced that four new roads […]
rpp.com.pe reported an American tourist was found dead inside his room at the Hotel Casa Andina, located in the portal Espinar province of Cusco. The foreign citizen was identified as Christine Franque Mart, who had come to the Imperial City in order to participate in an international event on textiles. The information was confirmed by […]
Anchovy fishing per year amounts to six million tonnes but up to one million tonnes of the pelagic resource is illegally caught, stated the president of the National Fisheries Society (SNP), Elena Conterno Martinelli. In an interview with Diario Correo, the SNP president made a critical analysis of the new fishing quota system established by […]
fis.com reported that experts of the Marine Institute of Peru (Imarpe) announced that next year El Niño phenomenon (FEN) will not certainly occur in the country, a situation that will be beneficial for productive activities, and mainly fishing. The scientists said they have a 90 per cent certainty that this current will not appear in […]
bnamericas.com reported energy developer Latin America Power (LAP) has outlined plans to add 1GW of installed capacity in Chile and Peru by 2018. Peru will comprise 350MW and Chile 650MW in new projects, LAP’s commercial manager Maurício Caamaño said during the 10th BNamericas Southern Cone Energy Summit in Lima on Thursday. “Of this total 806MW […]
The six Australians accused of murdering a Peruvian man in Lima have won the right to give statements on the case from Australia and avoided becoming the subjects of an Interpol red notice after a Peru court ruled in favour of their appeal against extradition. A statement from the group, dubbed the “Peru Six”, revealed […]
theguardiand.com reported that Peru’s air force is reopening an office responsible for investigating UFOs due to “increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena” in the country’s skies. The Department of Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (DIFAA), first created in 2001, is being revived after lying formant for five years because more UFO sightings have been reported […]
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LAHORA.COM.EC REPORTED….One company has found a virus that is affecting Facebook users Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. The company Eset, focusing on software and information security, Win32/Napolar detected, which is a new type botnet malware designed to perform denial of service attacks (DoS) attacks and steal information from infected systems. Read Article An Indispensable Guide to […]
A makeshift bus carrying 51 Quechua Indians back from a party in southeastern Peru plunged off a cliff into a river, killing everyone on board, including 14 children. The accident occurred Friday night as the red-and-yellow cargo truck made its way back from a party in the provincial capital of Santa Teresa, an area about […]
theguardian.com reported…It might be a strip of sand without even a jetty but a small stretch of the Pacific coast now harbours Bolivia’s dream of regaining a coast and becoming a maritime nation. The landlocked Andean country has won access to a desolate patch of Peru’s shoreline, fuelling hopes that Bolivia will once again have […]
Expreso.ec reported that three fossils of fish, 3 to 4 inches each, with a length of about 135 million years were discovered in an urban area of Lima, said Wednesday the Ministry of Culture of Peru. The fossils belong to a “marine fauna that lived during the time geological Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous, and outcrops were […]
EXPRESO.COM.PE reported……The Red Path terrorist group, which operates in the Vraem and its leader Victor Quispe Palomino (a) “Comrade Jose”, has spread in recent months to unimaginable limits, so it has become a force of regular features composed of a hundred bases “military” distributed throughout the Vraem, as narrated to EXPRESS hosts a deserter from […]
The former soldier and Red Path defector known as “Pantera” EXPRESS revealed that “chulleros”-charge of moving the drug into the Vraem-not afraid to carry heavy loads through suicide as true routes gorges, streams infested with snakes poisonous swamps, and other slippery roads that are death traps and suicide for those unfamiliar. “A few years ago […]
Globalpost.com reported that UK nationals Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum have given up their six-week attempt to prove their innocence, after they were accused of attempting to smuggle 24 pounds of cocaine out of Peru. More than 140 drug “mules” have been arrested at the Lima airport so far this year. Read Article
Cusco: Tourist dies with heart attack was from Argentina The victim was identified as Miguel Angel Noronha (62) and had come with his wife to visit Machu Picchu. A tourist nationality Argentina, which together with his wife visited the sanctuary of Machu Picchu, province of Urubamba, Cusco, ceased to exist, after suffering a heart attack. […]
ElComercio.pe reported that a Cessana plate CP-2677 was seized by police at a clandestine airstrip in Oxapampa . Los traffickers escaped. Pasco: confiscate 349 kilos of cocaine in small plane of Bolivian flag The ship plate CP-2677 was seized by police at a clandestine airstrip in Oxapampa . Los traffickers escaped Pasco: decomisan 349 kilos […]
elcomercio.pe reported that found were eight corpses of loggers, according to complaints made to the authorities of Ayacucho and Satipo, were killed by natives in Tsomaveni community, district of San Martin de Pangoa, in Junín. According to Canal N, the information was given by the father of one of the people who were missing, Enmanuel […]
Elcomercio.pe reported that these clandestine airfields are used by Bolivian drug traffickers to transport loads up to there and from there distributed to Brazil and Europe. According to police reports, in the area of Vraem , Ene river basin, where yesterday there was the capture of five suspected drug traffickers , have a dozen clandestine […]
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On September 16, 2013 Globo reported that three Peruvians were detained at the International Airport of Guarulhos, Campinas in Sao Paulo after attempting to steal a laptop and other electronic devices. Police report the gang specializes in stealing hand luggage at airports. The arrest was a joint mission between the military and civil police. Read […]
Terra reported on September 13, 2013 that the Brazilian Federal Police and the National Police of Peru agreed to join forces to find and remove cocaine production laboratories in the Peruvian Amazon. Police report “Operation Trapeze” will discover 15 hidden laboratories that can produce up to 10 tons of cocaine a year. Last year, the […]
rijock.blogspot.com reported that The United States Secret Service, which has jurisdiction over counterfeit American currency, has warned that state-of-the-art bogus one hundred dollar bills, and Euros, are being made in Peru by skillful criminal craftsmen. The figure officially quoted is $103m, in Peruvian-made counterfeits, that have been seized in the past ten years. Though the […]
laprensasa.com reported that the Russian social-networking Web site VK aims to displace Facebook as the Peruvians’ favorite in the medium term as a first step toward establishing its presence throughout the Latin American market, its representatives said. In a statement on the elcomercio.pe portal, the corporate vice president of VK, Ilya Perekopsky, said that to […]
Peru’s roads are among the most deadly in Latin America, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. The WHO’s 2013 report on road safety said that Peru has 15.9 deaths per 100,000 people. Countries that have a higher fatality rate include Venezuela at 37.2 per 100,000 and Brazil at 22.5 per 100,000. […]
peruviantimes.com reported that Lima’s Astrid & Gaston restaurant, owned by chefs Gaston Acurio and his wife Astrid Gutsche, was named the top restaurant in Latin America by the UK-based William Reed Business Media. The award was celebrated in Peru, which prides itself on its eclectic cuisine that mixes coastal, Andean and Amazonian ingredients with global […]
Five had increased the number of deaths from the H1N1 virus in the Piura region, said yesterday the Director of Health, Luis Saavedra. He added that in total there are 152 confirmed cases of influenza AH1N1, AH3N2 and type B, while 38 cases are still to be confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH). […]
On August 15, 2013 Perú 21 Noticias reported the rescue of 5 foreign trafficking victims during a police operation in Cusco. The male victims, all from India, had been forced by a compatriot to work for the past year as food preparation workers at the San Pedro Hotel. The victims were unable to escape as […]
On August 22, 2013 La República Noticias reported that the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism presented a campaign against human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. The campaign began with the distribution of posters and brochures at the airport in Lima. There are […]
From Peru 21 on August 26, 2013- Authorities intercepted a truck that was transporting more than 300 liters of muriatic acid, a component chemical in drug manufacturing, hidden amongst pottery. The vehicle had no documents proving their ownership of or transfer authorization for the acid which is a controlled substance. It is believed that the […]
On August 23, 2013 Terra reported that the governments of Peru and Brazil signed an agreement in Lima, Peru to help increase development and improve border control in the region as an effort to promote trade. Issues among discussion included human and drug trafficking. Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Patriota will visit Peru this […]
On August 22, 2013 Noticias Peru reported that the Peruvian government has amended its laws concerning wiretapping so that police no longer have to apply for a warrant or judicial authorization to conduct wiretaps for suspected crimes such as kidnapping, human trafficking, child pornography, aggravated robbery, extortion and drug trafficking. The amendment to Law No. […]
On August 21, 2013 La Prensa Noticias reported that cosmetics distributor Copamar, which operates in La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Tarija, is being investigated on suspicion of trafficking approximately 200 young women between 18 and 25 years old. According to prosecutor Humberto Quispe, Copamar would investigate the social and family lives of the girls […]
From rpp.com.pe on August 14, 2013- Two women in Puno were detained on a public service vehicle after authorities discovered 4 kilos of cocaine hidden in their backpacks. The vehicle was making driving from Puno to Desaguadero. After preliminary investigations, authorities have determined that the drugs were heading to Arequipa where they would be exchanged […]
From La Republica on August 15, 2013- Despite being considered a strategic drug trafficking hub for its geographical position, between 2006 and 2011 agents from Divandro only seized 1.7 kilos of cocaine. Drug trafficking experts say that Lambayeque is a key point for drug storage and shipment abroad for drugs coming from La Libertad, Cajamarca, […]
On August 12, 2013 La Hora Noticias reported the arrest of a bar owner and patron in Sullana on charges they were forcing a 16-year-old girl to work at the bar. Orgelinda Ángeles Salazar and her customer Servando Nole Méndez were originally taken to the police station for questioning following an incident where Nole Méndez […]
From lainformacion.com on August 11, 2013- Peru’s anti-drug police detained an Irish girl at the Jorge Chavez International Airport for attempting to carry six kilos of cocaine to Spain. She was arrested alongside a British woman who had five kilos of cocaine in her possession. According to the Peruvian press, the Irish woman had been […]
eLCOMERCIO.PE reported that at least $ 50,000 in illegal fuel daily across the border. PNP recognizes that should get 100 agents there is a change. At least fifteen gangs involved in the gas contraband business. At least seven border crossings involved. Aguas Verdes, Tumbes , 6:35 pm The traffic flow that is born in the […]
On August 7, 2013 RPP Noticias reported the arrest of a couple in Arequipa accused of infanticide and human trafficking. Salustiano Huamán Puma and his partner Obdulia Choque Sulca are under investigation for the murder of their infant child as well as for human trafficking after two undocumented minors were discovered in their custody. After […]
The OAS Promotes Inter-Institutional Cooperation for Civil Registry along the Borders of Ecuador, Colombia and Peru The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Universal Civil Identity Program in the Americas (PUICA) today accompanied the national registration authorities of Ecuador, Colombia and Peru in the signing of a cooperation agreement that seeks to combine their […]
larepublica.pe reported that a 69 year old British tourist died after suffering a heart attack before knowing the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu . His heart betrayed him as he prepared to board a bus that will move you into the world wonder. It was 5.40 pm yesterday when the British tourist, Stephen Mortimer Geoffey […]
From lainformacion.com on August 1, 2013- Bolivian police seized 144 kilos of Peruvian cocaine from the car of a Bolivian citizen who was planning to transport the drug to Brazil. The operation was carried out in a Bolivian town on the border with Peru. It is believed that the drugs came from the VRAEM region […]
The Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal, said Friday it is considering the creation of a marine reserve of 650,000 hectares in northwestern Peru, Ecuador border, to protect biodiversity under threat of predation and pollution. “We have been studying the proposal and to create a marine reserve of 650,000 hectares in northern Peru, Ecuador border, to […]
Police are investigating the causes that led to the death of a tourist Chilean national this morning in the district of Machu Picchu village in Cuzco province of Urubamba. The police went to the health center and Machu Picchu, on the topic of this establishment, they learned of the death of a woman identified as […]
From Tuteve.tv on July 29, 2013- According the chief executive of the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (Devida), Carmen Masias, Peru is close to eradicating 60% of its total coca eradication goal for 2013. Peru hopes to eradicate 22,000 hectares while at the same time increasing public support for development and inclusion […]
On July 26, 2013 Radio Onda Azul Noticias reported that, in the Judicial District of Puno, so far there have been 7 human trafficking sentences handed down by the Criminal Court. This information comes from the president of the Board of Chief Prosecutors of the Judicial District of Puno, Sofia Gaby Pantigozo Meza. Read Article
From rpp.com on July 25, 2013- Police from the Green Squadron in the Castilla district in Peru along with undercover agents were able to dismantle a drug trafficking organization that had been operating in the region. During the raid, authorities seized 660 packages of cocaine base, 100 grams of marijuana, moonshine, illegal cigarettes, and a […]
From Peru21 on July 24, 2013- Police arrested two people at the Orjerani checkpoint on the Puno highway after confirming that they were attempting to smuggle 12 kilos of cocaine base on an interprovincial bus. The bus belonged to the bus company called Mi Peru. The authorities stated that the base of operations for the […]